Frank Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant pictured in Instano 1912, Indiana Normal yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball, track and field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 13, 1884 Tuscarora Reservation |
| Died | April 12, 1937 (aged 52) Buffalo, New York |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1905–1907 | Carlisle Indian |
| 1909 | Dickinson |
| Position(s) | Quarterback, halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1910 | Franklin & Marshall |
| 1911–1913 | Indiana Normal |
| 1914 | West Virginia Wesleyan |
| 1915 | Buffalo |
| Basketball | |
| 1910–1911 | Franklin & Marshall |
| Baseball | |
| 1911 | Franklin & Marshall |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 35–15–3 (football) 4–4 (basketball) 5–7–1 (baseball) |
Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant, Jr. (June 13, 1884 – April 12, 1937)(Tuscarora) was an American football player, track and field athlete, and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and at Dickinson College. He made the 1904 and 1908 US Olympic track teams, placing sixth in the triple jump and long jump at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Mount Pleasant served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College (1910), Indiana Normal School, now Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1911–1913), West Virginia Wesleyan College (1914), and the University at Buffalo (1915). He was also the head basketball coach at Franklin & Marshall for 1910–11 season and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1911. the After World War I, in which he served as a first lieutenant, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he worked at odd jobs for the rest of his life.
Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant, Jr., called Frank, was born into the nation on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in New York; it is the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was the son of Chief John (aka Frank Senior) and Rachael. At a time when federal Indian policy emphasized assimilation, Mount Pleasant was sent as a child to be educated at Indian boarding schools. (Note: Most Indian boarding schools were not yet established; Carlisle was the first in the 1890s. He more likely attended a religious mission school at that time.)
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